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Over the course of a few days in October 2021, as they were watching film and TV crewmembers unionized with IATSE threatening to strike, a producer and production supervisor working on a major commercial job contemplated taking their own stand.
Erin Wile and Cheyenne Cage were working on a multimillion-dollar ad campaign for a major tech company that was pushing them to their breaking point: The production required long hours and lengthy commute times, coordinating several shoots and navigating the threat of bad weather, all while the production team was being asked to put more on their plate. (Wile and Cage declined to publicly name the companies involved, but The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the details of the shoot with other workers on the project.) Finally, three days into the shoot and after they say they raised concerns that weren’t addressed, Wile and Cage walked off the job,...
Over the course of a few days in October 2021, as they were watching film and TV crewmembers unionized with IATSE threatening to strike, a producer and production supervisor working on a major commercial job contemplated taking their own stand.
Erin Wile and Cheyenne Cage were working on a multimillion-dollar ad campaign for a major tech company that was pushing them to their breaking point: The production required long hours and lengthy commute times, coordinating several shoots and navigating the threat of bad weather, all while the production team was being asked to put more on their plate. (Wile and Cage declined to publicly name the companies involved, but The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the details of the shoot with other workers on the project.) Finally, three days into the shoot and after they say they raised concerns that weren’t addressed, Wile and Cage walked off the job,...
- 7/21/2022
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filmmakers have banded together to form filmmaker collectives throughout history, from Dogme 95 to Borderline Films. This year’s Sundance Film Festival screened the results of another promising new collective.
The short film “As Told to G/D Thyself” comes from The Ummah Chroma, which consists of cinematographer Bradford Young, directors Terence Nance (HBO’s “Random Acts of Flyness”), Jenn Nkiru (Beyoncé and Jay Z’s “Apeshit”), editor Marc Thomas (Michael & Javier) and Kamasi Washington.
The name of the group was conceived by Nance — Ummah is an Arabic word meaning “community,” and Chroma is the Greek word for “color” — but the idea of a collective first came to Washington in 2017, during the recording of his second studio album “Heaven and Earth,” which was released in 2018. “When I was making that record, the music felt so visual, and so I wanted to create a visual representation of what I felt with the music,...
The short film “As Told to G/D Thyself” comes from The Ummah Chroma, which consists of cinematographer Bradford Young, directors Terence Nance (HBO’s “Random Acts of Flyness”), Jenn Nkiru (Beyoncé and Jay Z’s “Apeshit”), editor Marc Thomas (Michael & Javier) and Kamasi Washington.
The name of the group was conceived by Nance — Ummah is an Arabic word meaning “community,” and Chroma is the Greek word for “color” — but the idea of a collective first came to Washington in 2017, during the recording of his second studio album “Heaven and Earth,” which was released in 2018. “When I was making that record, the music felt so visual, and so I wanted to create a visual representation of what I felt with the music,...
- 2/1/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
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